dumb sheep dave

Promoting Jesus Dependency

  • DumbSheepDave is focused on,

    worships, his ShepherdJesus and SERVES Him only, but ShepherdDave is focused on, worships, his circumstances, and SERVES his addictions.  What are Dave’s addictions?  Ministry, cars, physical-and-emotional health, sports teams, investments, bargains, appearance, relationships, critic/judge of everyone and everything.  Addicts do not experience happiness/contentment/sanity.  Addicts work hard to appear normal to others and to self, but…

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  • There is no power in independency.

    Only in Jesus-dependency.  The independent is wise in his own eyes, leans on his own understanding, does not ASK Jesus about evathang, nor does he THANK Jesus about evathang, and he is not curious/expectant to see what Jesus does NEXT, in him, others, circumstances.  There is no contagious Jesus in an independent.  Only in a…

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  • Jesus embarrassed me…

    the other day.  I’ve got these C/E notes (curious/expectant) all over my house, and the dashboard of my car.  I was surprised by how unexpectant I was of His blessing in my long drive through heavy traffic, to eat at a Golden Corral.  It was one of those times when it seemed like everything went…

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  • The worse I feel, physiologically,

    the more confident I am I know what’s best for me and others.  And.  The less contented I am, with myself, possessions, accomplishments, Jesus, and His genius plan for my life, and the more easily irritated I am with others, and the more competitive I am.  Inwardly.  But outwardly I’ve learned to fake niceness, kindness,…

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  • Impossible to be humble and impatient.

    Only the proud are impatient.  Only the proud have contempt for others, and suppressed self-contempt, and are self-deceived about their competitive need to feel superior. A humble man enjoys himself just as he is, and others, just as they are.  A humble man feels no need to feel superior to others.  A humble man is…

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  • When I crave easier circumstances,

    I’m always confident-I-know-what’s-best, leaning on my own understanding, wise in my own eyes, not THANKful for the harrrd in my life that comes from the hand of my loving Savior to retrain me in a better way of living, and what’s worst — I’m circumstance-dependent for my joy and peace, feeling entitled to easier, claiming…

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  • The opposite of ambition, is contentment.

    Only the ambitious are proud.  Only the humble are contented.  Impossible to be humble and ambitious.  Impossible to be proud and contented. Only a humble man is contented with how Jesus made his body, made his mind, shaped his personality, engineered him into his present job, house, car, clothes, financial health/dysfunction, marriage/singleness, children, relatives, relationships. …

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  • Jesus provides contentment,

    but only to the freshly humble — those freshly DEAD to their own worthiness, reputation, financial security, job security, relationship security…those freshly unfazed at the possibility of losing everything, willing to be nobodies, losers, pitied by all.  Because the freshly humble find so much contentment in Jesus alone.  Jesus is ENOUGH for the freshly humble.…

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  • Better than asking for fresh faith,

    is CONFESSing my unbelief in His sovereign reign over my life, and the genius plan/story He has scripted for all of us, from before the beginning of time.  It’s more honest/humiliating to CONFESS than to ask.  ProudDave can ask for yet-more faith without admitting his failure to believe/trust/rest.  CONFESSion is a means of grace, the…

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  • We are not a nation of the humble,

    but a nation of fools: proud, defensive, confident-we-know-what’s-best, wise in our own eyes, leaning on our own understanding, critical-judgmental, competitive, willful, agendafied, self-absorbed, angry with the opposition.  Independents, not God-dependents.  Believers in a sovereign nation, not a sovereign God.  Obsessed with being the Superpower, with being superior.  Self-appointed PolicemanOfTheWorld.  Chastising other nations.  If power corrupts,…

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